Day 11

Let me tell you about today May 10, 2011.

Today I had a bit of a thought. I wondered about certain things, and more than others I wondered what it would be like to live forever. What if my body didn’t break down? What if age was just a number? My head swirled with ways that this could happen. I thought of ways others had gone about trying to accomplish the same thing. Here is a break down of the ways I have come across thus far.

Holy Grail: an old story about a cup that empowered the owner eternal life when ever their lips touched the brim, sure sounds good; however, hasn’t been seen in 400 years and with a lack of a passport I don’t have time to head over to England and search for it. Next.

The Tuck Family: there is a book about a family that found a spring where the person who drank from it would be endowed with life forever staying young, not feeling pain, or the aches of disease. Not a bad pay off and the rumor of its placement is in the north eastern side of the united states, but it was rumored to be there around the 1900’s, back when trees were actually there. I doubt the spring is still there. Next.

Vampires: though I fit the role according to comments on all my pictures. I don’t know if I could do it, I don’t like the idea of staying out of the sun, I love the sun, and love fruit. Both are things vampires aren’t to keen on. That and I can’t seem to find one. They are sneaky. Next.

The Dark Lord: for a split second let’s pretend harry potter’s realm is real. Given all the dark acts I would have to comment I’m not sure I would even enjoy the life I would live. Everyone would hate me. That and I’m 19, still no letter from Hogwarts, I blame the wind from Oklahoma, no owl is flying through it. Next.

Then there is the practical way, with the advances in medical science. Lets pose a problem. I am sick. I am in need of a new kidney, with chances of finding a donor low. The doctors can only wait for so long as my kidneys are refusing to function for much longer. I pose a solution. Put me under. Take my kidneys out. But instead of trying a new set of kidneys where there are chances of tissue rejection and failure of function. Lets use modern science to solve the solution. There have been scientists working on a fluid that function much like our own blood. However it’s very complex there can’t be anything larger than 1/800 of an inch in the fluid as it would clog and collapse the arteries. Not to mention the levels of oxygen that need to be constant as they flow through the fluid. I know it’s several years away, but we are making advances in stem cell research that is going to inch this along the finish line. Once this fluid is developed one simply places the kidney extracted from the patient into the fluid and work openly on the kidney without worry of damaging the patient from such a long time under surgery. I know what you are thinking, not possible… but!
Alexis Carrol, the first American to win the Nobel prize in medicine, took a premature chicken egg and kept the it alive for 18 years in a state of frozen animation, not showing the breaking down of tissue, or aging that one would normally see. Let’s just say I’ve been thinking about this, will return to this topic later.

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